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Kevin O'Sullivan
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Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
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This is a great way of putting it. For anyone who'd like to see those ghosts, here's a Google Map I created for the first walk of our workshop. Sites of Fracture - Killeagh
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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momoulton.bsky.social
How can we see the ecology of what isn't there? A pharmaceutical plant that wasn't built - and the industrial agriculture that lives in its place. A lake that was built for fishing and drained for industry and is mourned to this day. The ghosts of the landscape are also the history of capitalism.
kevinkosullivan.bsky.social Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 1d
This was a hugely energising two-and-a-half days. Big thanks to Greywood Arts Centre for hosting us, to this/OUR for the collaboration, and to everyone who came along to participate. It's the first workshop I've been to where we've managed to spend half of the time outdoors - as is only fitting.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!

www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
This was a hugely energising two-and-a-half days. Big thanks to Greywood Arts Centre for hosting us, to this/OUR for the collaboration, and to everyone who came along to participate. It's the first workshop I've been to where we've managed to spend half of the time outdoors - as is only fitting.
Photo of a group of people standing in a woodland. Nineteenth century map of Killeagh Gardens, Co Cork. Signpost, which has details of two townlands, Ballymakeagh More and Finisk. Sign, detailing the history of the railway station at Killeagh, Co Cork.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Tell you what, I'm no fan of this Champions League format but Brugge 3-3 Barcelona is a hell of a game. Two goals disallowed for Brugge, a crazy high line from Barcelona, three times they've had to equaliser, and a wonderful Lamine Yamal goal too.
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Very excited about the second workshop in our 'Sites of Fracture' project (funded by AHRC), starting tomorrow in east Cork. It's also our first site-specific workshop. The impetus for the project came from our desire to explore those spaces where challenges to totalising capitalism surfaced.
Sites of Fracture Twentieth Century Ireland at the Margins of Capitalism WORKSHOP 2 Greywood Arts Centre & Glenbower Wood Killeagh, Co. Cork 6-8 November 2025 [Photo of the River Dissour, running through Glenbower Wood] Workshop Overview In our present moment of extraordinary ecological and economic challenges, there is a global search for alternatives to models of extractive capitalism. While these alternatives offer critiques of the global reach and power of modern economic processes, they are often profoundly local in their application, such as housing collectives, agricultural cooperatives, or alternate forms of energy provision. These schemes, while seeking to create alternate spaces of cooperation and community, have resided alongside or in opposition to global capitalist formations, with particular local repercussions. We define these as ‘sites of fracture’, where messy, complex interactions between global capitalism and local alternative forms of organisation existed and produced particularly rich seams of memory and evidence. This workshop brings our research to one such site: Killeagh, east Cork. Our walk on Day 1 will challenge us to think about how engaging with physical landscapes makes us to reflect differently on how centuries of capitalist extraction have re-shaped the landscapes of rural Ireland. Our conversations on Day 2 will reflect on how collaborative and situated research can help us to understand and share the layers of global, local, and more-than-human experience of capitalism and its alternatives over the course of the twentieth century. What sources are available to scholars and communities interested in investigating Irish economic and environmental history? What expressive tools can we draw on to enable communities to engage with their histories of life at sites of fracture? What methods can we use to chart and assess the collisions of human and more-than- human aspirations in sites defined by globalised extraction?
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Very excited about the second workshop in our 'Sites of Fracture' project (funded by AHRC), starting tomorrow in east Cork. It's also our first site-specific workshop. The impetus for the project came from our desire to explore those spaces where challenges to totalising capitalism surfaced.
Sites of Fracture Twentieth Century Ireland at the Margins of Capitalism WORKSHOP 2 Greywood Arts Centre & Glenbower Wood Killeagh, Co. Cork 6-8 November 2025 [Photo of the River Dissour, running through Glenbower Wood] Workshop Overview In our present moment of extraordinary ecological and economic challenges, there is a global search for alternatives to models of extractive capitalism. While these alternatives offer critiques of the global reach and power of modern economic processes, they are often profoundly local in their application, such as housing collectives, agricultural cooperatives, or alternate forms of energy provision. These schemes, while seeking to create alternate spaces of cooperation and community, have resided alongside or in opposition to global capitalist formations, with particular local repercussions. We define these as ‘sites of fracture’, where messy, complex interactions between global capitalism and local alternative forms of organisation existed and produced particularly rich seams of memory and evidence. This workshop brings our research to one such site: Killeagh, east Cork. Our walk on Day 1 will challenge us to think about how engaging with physical landscapes makes us to reflect differently on how centuries of capitalist extraction have re-shaped the landscapes of rural Ireland. Our conversations on Day 2 will reflect on how collaborative and situated research can help us to understand and share the layers of global, local, and more-than-human experience of capitalism and its alternatives over the course of the twentieth century. What sources are available to scholars and communities interested in investigating Irish economic and environmental history? What expressive tools can we draw on to enable communities to engage with their histories of life at sites of fracture? What methods can we use to chart and assess the collisions of human and more-than- human aspirations in sites defined by globalised extraction?
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Thank you to everyone who took part in today’s event
'The Troubles and the European Community: Exploring DIFP XIV (1969–73)'.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I'm reading Martin MacInnes' novel, In Ascension, at the moment, and there are some wonderful passages about how we open our eyes to the natural world. Here's a particularly striking description of when the main character realises the blurred boundaries between her body and the world around her.
Ordinarily I couldn't see any of this. Only through careful and deliberate study could I witness what had been in front of me all along. And so I did this, at home and at school. I remember this as a great period of visibility, the world bursting into appearance. The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Celebrating the Cailleach and Samhain this evening in Glenbower Wood, East Cork.
Photograph of people standing in a courtyard, holding lanterns. In the middle is a group of veiled women. People walking through trees in the dark. A group of people gathered in a woodland. There is large sculpture of a bird, lit from inside, being held aloft. A moon-shaped lantern hanging from a tree.
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Re-posting this in case any of you are in Dublin next week. Link to tickets below.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This arrived today @pbresnihan.bsky.social. Congrats. Very much looking forward to reading!
Photo of a physical copy of the book, From the Bog to the Cloud, by Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie.
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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From my personal archive (aka a box full of old stuff from the 90s): the programme for Ireland v Poland, Euro u21 championship qualifier, Oriel Park, Dundalk, 30 April 1991. My first time seeing an Irish team in the flesh - and also my first time seeing a certain R. Keane in person.
Cover of the programme for Ireland u21 v Poland u21 at Oriel Park, Dundalk, 30 April 1991. Features photo of a footballer in a Dundalk kit. Roy KEANE (Nottingham Forest) Having a great season with Forest, whom he joined from Cobh Ramblers. Roy has been a regular in midfield for Forest and scored in their recent FA Cup Semi-Final win over West Ham. A former Youth International, Roy played his Schoolboy football for Rockmount in Cork. He made an impressive Under 21 debut against Turkey at Dalymount Park in October and captained the team against England at Brentford last month. Under 21 Caps 3. Team line ups for Ireland v Poland.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Wow. What a shower. The ugly underbelly of right-wing delusion has been showing itself in all its forms this weekend. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
Who was behind the 'Spoil The Vote' campaign?
A network of businesspeople and online commentators campaigned for voters to spoil their ballots as a form of protest. Here's who they are — and how they became part of the movement
www.rte.ie
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Post-work listening: Sigur Rós. Stands up surprisingly well - unlike some acts I was into in that period. Saw them at the Olympia, Dublin, on this tour. Bizarrely, it's the closest I've come to a punch-up at a gig, when my friend was told to shut up during the support act. youtu.be/Bz8iEJeh26E?...
Sigur Ros - Glósóli [Official Music Video - 4K]
YouTube video by Sigur Rós
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October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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STV = the Smartie choice.
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Are you a little confused about how Ireland’s Presidential Election works?

Fear not: I have once again picked up some 🔴 popular 🟠 coloured 🟡 chocolate-based 🟢 confectionary 🔵 treats 🟣 to show how the #aras25 votes are counted.

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October 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Its legacy is slightly forgotten, but Radharc was a powerful vehicle for radical topics in the 1960s & 1970s. It was vital introducing Irish people to human rights abuses in Latin America, for example, and humanitarian crises elsewhere, as well as to liberation theology.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Former RTÉ editor Fr Dermod McCarthy dies aged 83
RTÉ's former head of religious programming, Fr Dermod McCarthy, has died at the age of 83.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I am looking for a map illustrating where “Global History” scholarship is being produced and claimed globally. I’ve seen and used this map before but can’t find it again. Any references or links would be much appreciated.
October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The world is a much, much better place for having artists like Cate Le Bon in it. Her new album, Michelangelo Dying, is just great.
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Michelangelo Dying, by Cate Le Bon
10 track album
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October 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Incredible...

"Attempt­ing the unen­vi­able task of pro­tect­ing Meat­ Loaf from debris and hold­ing the crowd back was my pal Marty. He was stand­ing in the pit directly on front of the stage, swat­ting beer cans when sud­denly, every­thing in the com­mu­nity cen­tre went into slow motion."
irishnumberones.bsky.social Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 24d
I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Play Moate, Co. Westmeath Again). Only a couple of years before his 1993 comeback, Meat Loaf was reduced to touring the provincial towns of Ireland: here's a brilliant piece on how that went for him www.loudersound.com/features/mea...
Meat Loaf, a flying wheelchair, and the greatest story ever told Features By Ronan Casey ( Classic Rock ) last updated 21 January 2022 In 1989 Meat Loaf's career was floundering, and he was booked on a tour of small Irish halls. It did not go according to plan
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Friday evening listening - from the Dirtchamber Sessions mix CD put together by Liam Howlett (of Prodigy fame) in the late 1990s. I loved this when it came out - I taped it from my friend Brian's copy at school. My first introduction to the Jimmy Castor Bunch. youtu.be/jWRwlF2LNKk?...
Prodigy Present - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One - Section 8 HD 720p
YouTube video by AntonisThe
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October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM